Dr Rob Collins

Visual Project Maps (VPMs) provide you with a collaborative tool to get your projects moving quickly and to build engagement with your team. They enable you bring a group together in the shortest timescale to execute your project efficiently and effectively.

VPMs are a tool for thinking about projects. They provide a navigable map of your ‘Project Space’ and promote a common understanding within your team. VPMs enable Project Managers to leverage the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ - VPMs capture the experience and knowledge of diverse teams working in collaboration to achieve shared Goals.

You need Visual Project Maps (VPMs) if you are:

• A Project Manager, starting a new project
• A Leader, working with your team to set the direction for your organisation
• An Entrepreneur, kick-starting a new Enterprise or creating a new product
• A Creative, energising a team for a new production
• A Marketeer, launching a new campaign
• A Political leader, creating a new movement or re-invigorating an existing one
• A Scientist, launching a new research project

In short, everybody who wants to reach a Goal needs Visual Project Maps.

VPMs provide a Systems Thinking approach to projects: They support your identification and management of Risks and allow you to seamlessly integrate Stakeholder management into your project lifecycle. VPMs will help you deliver your project whether you are following a traditional project methodology ( Prince2 / APM ) or using an Agile Project Management approach.

This book provides a complete instruction manual to enable you to build your own Visual Project Maps in collaboration with your team and to speed your projects towards success.